The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist
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An offensive act may arouse anxiety about the ritual code; the offender allays this anxiety by showing that both the code and he as an upholder of it are still in working order.
I'm just a public entertainer who has understood his time.
Mr. el-Masri said the discovery suggested to experts that this could have been the site of a temple complex in the reign of Ramses, who ordered more buildings and colossal statues than any other pharaoh did. On the other hand, he added, Ramses is known to have carved his name on statues of previous pharaohs or to have reshaped them.
By now the connection between [Robert] Mapplethorpe and [Patti] Smith is well known, almost overknown, overshadowing what meant so much; the mechanisms of fame always seem to need to suck just one image out of the fuller picture.
How was it with the painters of the New York School at the beginning of the 1960s? I scarcely knew them. … It was more the fame of these people that astonished me.
In the 1960s, in three “actions” of radical self-understanding and selfdefinition, Beuys sharply differentiated himself from other artists – from the dadaists, Duchamp, and Robert Morris – in order to avoid public misunderstanding of his therapeutic intention.
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